Kindred Soul

I caught a link to a book titled, The Tenth Dimension by Rob Bryanton, a Canadian thinker who's exploring a most intriguing idea. I took the link to his website www.tenthdimension.com. As far reaching and expanded as his concept is, it explains very well to me much of what I see in my brain. So I allow him in.

His thinking satisfies a deeper side of myself, brings me out of the stupor of worldly striving, that imp that rides my shoulder bidding constantly that I'm not good enough to write this sort of stuff, that I have nothing to say, no perceptions, no insights of value to anyone. Reading the thoughts of a man like Bryanton shakes me back to reality. I walk away from the brink of the abyss (scroll down to On the Edge of Awakening, Jan. 4, 07). Bryonton could very well be one of the other souls I see walking there along the great divide between now and the Awakening--because what I see in the imaginations is as real as the world from which I type this blog.

He makes me wonder and be satisfied with the possibility that all this inner stuff that lives pleasantly and sometimes bothersomely, that it's good. Good, because it's truth. Greater truth and more real than much of what I write and see in the success-driven world around me.

Do I want a better life? You bet I do! I want to reach out and attain. I want to accomplish everything in me, to manifest the dreams of my inner man: to be an artist extraordinaire, to be one of the best and greatest writers of all time, to play piano originally and outstandingly in public to invent song on stage in performance--great song, lasting and unforgetable, play it out right there, live, in performance for the first time ever heard. These things I want.

I cry out from the darkness of my soul. Sometimes I pray fervant prayers and stand firm, steadfast in believing faith thinking I understand God and have my right relationship in place so that I can actually pray and be heard. And then there are days, sometimes weeks where God is far from me seemingly and I cannot find Him despite my honest efforts.

Then my eye catches something. I click on it and sail off into the imaginations of another thinker who is pondering the imponderable and he feeds me. Thank you Rob Bryanton, for thinking. You've stimulated my inner being by showing me the possibility of some of what I suspect is true.

A Map for Change

One quite successful friend of mine told me he saw 3 key principles at work in growing an enterprise.

First, he said, in order to grow, a company has to maintain its customer base. Growth cannot take place if you neglect those who helped establish your business. That makes clear sense to me.

Secondly, in order to grow you have to work within your current model, he said. You do what's been working while you look to integrate a new method or approach.

But to experience growth, he told me, you've have to explore new ways, new technology while in the process of maintaining what you have.

I try to see this conceptually. In words it's logical. In application, it seems fairly easy to understand. I want to see the application of change however as an image, so that when I'm confronted with various degrees of effort or disappointment, I have a visual map by which to plot my way through.